Chapter 12

Back Matter

Sources for Chapter 2

The books, Web sites, journal articles, and interviews listed on this page are sources of information other than facts and concepts found in most beginning college-level meteorology textbooks, which the author used or that could help readers better understand the concepts described. For more on various topics, including further reading and links to related Web sites, follow the links labeled “Explorations.” Links labeled “Outtakes” are to text from early drafts of the book that were dropped before publication.

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Peggy LeMone profile: Based on the author’s interview with LeMone in her office, e-mail exchanges, telephone calls, and her Web site. Her detailed description of the puddle research described in the profile is on her GLOBE Chief Scientist’s blog in the archives for May 2007.

Effects of Mount Pinatubo eruption: “Chapter 2: Observed Climate Change and Variability,” in Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis, contribution of Working Group I to the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Arendal, Norway: GRID-Arendal, 2003), subsection 2.2.2.1.

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Antarctic fossils, including Glossopteris on Scott’s sled: Kristan Hutchison, “Early Explorers Left Rock Legacy (PDF file),” Antarctic Sun (December 28, 2003): 8. Most of the stories in this issue of the Sun are about scientists studying fossils left from a much warmer Antarctica.

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The Arctic Ocean Halocline graphic: Based on the author’s research for the Arctic Ocean Hides Icy Puzzles online graphic, USATODAY.com (2001), (click on the white triangle in the red circle on the upper-left side to animate the graphic, and then click on the numbers) and for his book The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Arctic and Antarctic (New York: Alpha Books, 2003), 50–51.

Milankovitch theory: USNO’s The Tilt of the Earth’s Axis and Its Elliptical Orbit page; John Imbrie and Katherine Palmer Imbrie, Ice Ages: Solving the Mystery (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), 113–122, 141–152. In addition to describing the development of Milankovitch’s theory, this book puts the story in the historical and scientific context.

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Judith Lean profile: Based on the author’s telephone interviews and e-mail exchanges with Lean and the May 13, 2003, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory press release on her election to the National Academy of Sciences.

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The sun and global warming: S. Solomon, et al., “Technical Summary” in Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis, contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 60.